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单词 brat pack
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Definition of brat pack in English:

brat pack

noun
informal
  • A rowdy and ostentatious group of young celebrities, especially film stars.

    〈非正式〉一群吵闹、招摇的年轻名流(尤指电影明星)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The remnants of the brat pack will move from being young hopefuls to bitter, elderly middle-aged men by the time they have another chance to get into Government.
    • She is being promoted but, of course, she is not getting ahead of the brat pack.
    • We can see the brat pack with their mouths down-turned.
    • She is devastated, and a wounded brat pack is a dangerous brat pack indeed.
    • Probably, it is an advantage for the brat pack as they can choose from the options they have.
    • We asked a bunch of Jakarta teens whether they consider the young stars a budding brat pack, or worthy of their esteem.
    • Lacking the irony of other children's films that make them enjoyable for accompanying adults, and being too young to fall in a brat pack genre, personally, I would recommend a visit to an Imax cinema and let them watch Lizzie McGuire on TV.
    • The brat pack has become the rat pack, and it will become the geriatric pack in the next few years, having gone absolutely nowhere at all.
    • City manager Neil Thompson was full of praise for his brat pack and admitted their displays had left him with a welcome selection poser for tomorrow's trip to Darlington.
    • Like his father, Donald Sutherland, who matured into a lead actor with an eerily haunting presence, Kiefer has graduated from playing brat pack eccentrics to becoming a commanding character actor.
    • His name is the same as that of a handsome 80's brat pack actor and that cracks me up.
    • The problem I have encountered with the speed bumps is the brat pack that hangs about on the corner of Keswick Street.
    • This tend to be the Stockholm brat pack hangout, so get the champagne out and spray it in someone unknowing's face.
    • Very much like the brat pack, I thought - pompous, rich and with an attitude.
    • But instead of neo brat pack posing, we get intelligent, passionate, adventurous music.
    • It was only a matter of months ago that the so-called fresh new Brash team swept away the worn out young fogies of the English brat pack.
    • But then came the new breed, aptly named the brat pack.

Derivatives

  • brat packer

  • noun
    informal
    • Since her first film, a 1980s brat packer, when she was 13, she has made some 30 movies.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her only solace is a sympathetic high school teacher, nicely underplayed by a former ‘brat packer’, who encourages her to enroll in an arts school in New York.
      • The again, everyone's comparing candidates to brat packers, so this might work.
      • He has had to bring back three of the four brat packers, who still have blood on their backs, and he has had to put them on to the front bench, to plot against him.
      • One writer of a biography of Cobain refused to allow his book to be optioned, worried that the resultant film would feature some earnest brat packer in a dreadful wig.

Origin

1980s: after rat pack1.

Definition of brat pack in US English:

brat pack

nounˈbrat ˌpakˈbræt ˌpæk
informal
  • A rowdy and ostentatious group of young celebrities, typically movie stars.

    〈非正式〉一群吵闹、招摇的年轻名流(尤指电影明星)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We can see the brat pack with their mouths down-turned.
    • Lacking the irony of other children's films that make them enjoyable for accompanying adults, and being too young to fall in a brat pack genre, personally, I would recommend a visit to an Imax cinema and let them watch Lizzie McGuire on TV.
    • The remnants of the brat pack will move from being young hopefuls to bitter, elderly middle-aged men by the time they have another chance to get into Government.
    • But then came the new breed, aptly named the brat pack.
    • We asked a bunch of Jakarta teens whether they consider the young stars a budding brat pack, or worthy of their esteem.
    • She is devastated, and a wounded brat pack is a dangerous brat pack indeed.
    • The problem I have encountered with the speed bumps is the brat pack that hangs about on the corner of Keswick Street.
    • But instead of neo brat pack posing, we get intelligent, passionate, adventurous music.
    • Probably, it is an advantage for the brat pack as they can choose from the options they have.
    • His name is the same as that of a handsome 80's brat pack actor and that cracks me up.
    • Like his father, Donald Sutherland, who matured into a lead actor with an eerily haunting presence, Kiefer has graduated from playing brat pack eccentrics to becoming a commanding character actor.
    • City manager Neil Thompson was full of praise for his brat pack and admitted their displays had left him with a welcome selection poser for tomorrow's trip to Darlington.
    • Very much like the brat pack, I thought - pompous, rich and with an attitude.
    • It was only a matter of months ago that the so-called fresh new Brash team swept away the worn out young fogies of the English brat pack.
    • The brat pack has become the rat pack, and it will become the geriatric pack in the next few years, having gone absolutely nowhere at all.
    • This tend to be the Stockholm brat pack hangout, so get the champagne out and spray it in someone unknowing's face.
    • She is being promoted but, of course, she is not getting ahead of the brat pack.

Origin

1980s: after rat pack.

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